The Gospel is the Power of Yahuwah

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Chaim the Orthodox Jew Who needs Jesus Christ the Orthodox Jew

Dear friends,
Yahuwah be with you.

As you are aware since my mammoth message on repentance you have heard from me absolutely nothing. I am sure some of you are very pleased about this. However thanks be to the Most High Yahuwah I am neither dead nor sickly in bed but am well. And my adventures thanks to Yahuwah, are continuing. I have been to Banias, Safed and Migdal in the North and Beersheva in the south of Israel and all the time I have read prophecy and prayed Yahuwah send forth labourers. "Lord of harvest I beseech thee send forth labourers to take the message of repentance and the Kingdom of God to the ends of the land".
I have had numerous discussions which Orthodox Jews about the need to turn back to righteousness, justice and the covenant and the written Torah. Many of these discussion have been lead by Yahuwah. For example , I ended up in the middle of a religious music festival in Safed. I had just come from Banias where Yeshua was declared Messiah Son of God by Peter. I tried to hitch back to Jerusalem Well after an hour or so I had managed to get about 5 kms along on the 100 km journey. So I surrendered and prayed and just relaxed and read the Bible for an hour. Reading prophecy to the land of Israel. Like Jeremiah's assistant in Jeremiah 52. Well after about another hour a bus came which I promptly took although it wasn't expected. I got to Kyriat Shmona and being the persistent man I am, I took a hand at hitching again. This time to Migdal. Well after an hour of that I resigned again and jumped on a bus to Safed. So when I arrived in Safed I did not have enough bus fare for Jerusalem
I followed the Lord instructions and looked for a man who was worthy in the town.
I first went to old friends Ian and Lorna. Well unfortunately they were off to South Africa for the summer. But they left a South African ogre in charge who promptly sent me back to the street, with some obsure attempt at encouragement, "You'll probably find Peretz in the street if he's not at home". May Yahuwah not hold this against her on judgement day. Well any way I shook the dust off my feet, or at least I should have done, and moved on.
I found Peter(Peretz) at his house. They had dozens of young people staying over for the 3 day religious music festival which I happened to have turned up to the beginning of. He and his flatmates welcomed me.
And what a fasted and blessed three days it was. I didn't have much food because I was out of money and so was Peter. Unfortunately I slept through the free lunch one day which was most upsetting. However over these three days I had numerous discussions about Yeshua and Torah. I'll give one example. I was busy talking to Peter and suddenly the Spirit of Yahuwah came upon me and I burst out into tongues, as one does in such a situation. Standing behind was a young religous man dressed in black with the black kippah and the black hat and the whole shabang.
His name was Chaim and he asked me "What was that language you were speaking?". I tried to avoid telling him the full spiritual explanation in the middle of a religious Jewish house lest I cause offence. However having tried for a few seconds I realised there was no other explanation so I just told him it was a prayer language God had given us to pray with. He exclaimed "Wow man that's really cool!".
After a little while we went for a walk. We spoke for about forty five minutes on the Holy Spirit and controlling the tongue. I told him some of Yeshua's teaching on the Holy Spirit. He did not know who Yeshua the Nazarene was. I told him if you pray for the Holy Spirit in the name of Yeshua the Nazrene you'll recieve him a lot quicker. He said who is that ? I repeated it and he repeated the question. Then I said Jesus of Nazareth and he said he couldn't have any thing to do with him. I could'nt even pray with him. He asked me if it was ok to peirce his tongue, to remind him to control it. I said if you want to control your tongue you need the Holy Spirit. But he bemoaned the fact that he wasn't sure he had faith to ask for it.
Any way before you all fall asleep I'll move on.
The next day I began to hitch to Jerusalem. Yahuwah had given me the go ahead. And as I reached the street, there was Chaim. But he wasn't dressed in black . We spoke again.
He was happy to see me.
The next day I was back in Jeruslem, only by God's grace. I testified in my office about the adventures in Safed. I told them about Chaim, as above. Then at twelve I felt a kind of humger in my spirit. I felt I should leave the office to see my friend Katya (a fulfiller of the word of Yahuwah). Well I left walked down to Zion square and turned left at the bank. And who should be wandering around, but Chaim. Baruch ha shem Yahuwah.
He was again happy to see me and we talked on spiritual things again for an hour. Then he had his bus. These Orthodox Chabad Jews, like us, believe nothing happens by chance, so he was thoroughly impressed with another divine meeting. Please pray for Chaim to come to full repentance in the name of Yeshua the Nazarene, Messiah of Israel.
Well the excitement doesn't end there. I spent the weekend in Migdal with my Jewish friend Sivan and her religous orthodox family. People for the first time in my life I davened.
That is I prayed in the Synagogue using the Jewish prayer book, like Paul and Yeshua. Wow is that amazing or what! It was the fulfilment of another one of those prophecies spoken over me in January 1999 before I left England.
Just praying with them taught me a lot. The prayer book is mainly made up of Psalms and Scriptures. They use many of the prayers as a substitue and a guardian of the Torah teachings on the temple service. These prayers could be prayed by any Christian who loves Yahuwah. So do we need to pray for a Messianic prayer book with New Testament and Tanakh prayers contained? It is a way of teaching our children the glories of the Tanakh , the Gospel and what Yahuwah has done for us in giving us Yeshua and the Torah.

> The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all
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